Karachi, 18/12: A popular Pakistani international kabbadi player, Ubaidullah Rajput, faces the prospect of a severe disciplinary action after he appeared for an Indian team in a private tournament in Bahrain on December 16. Ubaidullah found himself in big trouble after videos and pictures of him wearing Indian shirt and waving the Indian flag in…
Muscat, 18/12: India and Oman on Thursday inked a free trade agreement, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi held talks with Sultan Haitham bin Tarik and explored ways to further add greater depth to the bilateral Strategic Partnership. Modi, who arrived in Oman on Wednesday on the last leg of his three-nation tour, was welcomed by…
Melbourne, 18/12: A 34-year-old Indian-origin man who helped restrain one of the alleged shooters of the Bondi Beach attack in Australia said he wanted to help bring one of the assailants down and assist anyone who needed help. Fifteen people were killed after a father-son duo launched a gun attack on the occasion of a…
Dhaka, 18/12: Two Indian visa application centers in Bangladesh were shut down on Thursday in view of the security situation in the country. The centers are located in Rajshahi and Khulna.
Cochin, 18/12: An Air India Express flight from Jeddah to Kozhikode with 160 passengers made an emergency landing at the Cochin International Airport on Thursday due to issues involving its landing gear and tyre failure. The Cochin International Airport Limited (CIAL), in a statement, said that it successfully facilitated the safe emergency landing of Air…
New Delhi, 17/12: Taking a serious note of the severe air pollution levels in Delhi-NCR, the Supreme Court on Wednesday issued a slew of directions and asked the NHAI and the MCD to consider either temporary closing or relocating the nine toll plazas at borders of the national capital to ease usual massive traffic congestion.
New Delhi, 17/12: Lok Sabha on Wednesday passed the nuclear energy bill with Union minister Jitendra Singh asserting that it would help India achieve its target of 100 GW atomic energy generation by 2047. The Sustainable Harnessing and Advancement of Nuclear Energy for Transforming India (SHANTI) Bill, which seeks to open the tightly-controlled civil nuclear…
Bengaluru, 17/12: Income Tax (IT) officials launched raids in Bengaluru on Wednesday at a pub co-owned by Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty. Sleuths from the government agency arrived at Bastian Garden City near MG Road in Central Bengaluru and launched the search operation. The exact nature of the searches is yet to be determined, and an…
New Delhi, 17/12: Opposition on Wednesday objected to the SHANTI Bill in Lok Sabha with senior Congress MP Manish Tewari tearing into the draft law saying that the ruling BJP is undermining India’s energy independence and clean energy goals by breaking a 2010 consensus on nuclear liability regime as well as by not providing clarity…
Bengaluru, 17/12: A Bengaluru-based advocate on Tuesday filed a complaint seeking registration of a Zero FIR with Director General and Inspector General of Police (DG&IGP) M A Saleem against Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar after he was seen grabbing a woman’s hijab. Advocate Owaiz Hussain S also marked the complaint to the Bengaluru police commissioner…
